Lo que puede venir (Autoretrato) (What May Happen [Self-Portrait]) Artist: Leopoldo Méndez (Mexican, 1902–1969)
Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago
Publisher: Taller de Gráfica Popular (Mexico City, founded 1937)

1945

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Wood engraving

Dimensions

platemark: 12 × 6 7/8 in. (30.48 × 17.46 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Carter H. Harrison, Law 1883 for the Emerson Tuttle Memorial Collection, 24 July 1947.

Accession Number

1947.300

Geography

Made in Mexico

Culture

Mexican

Period

20th century

Classification

Prints

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Bibliography
  • Diane Miliotes, What may come : the Taller de Gráfica Popular and the Mexican political print = Lo que puede venir : El Taller de Gráfica Popular y el grabado político mexicano., First, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2014), 4, Fig.1, fig. 1
  • Dawn Ades and Alison McClean, Revolution on Paper: Mexican Prints 1910-1960, ed. Mark McDonald, exh. cat. (London; Austin: British Museum Press, 2009), 184, no. 120, 120 Anthropos
  • Gina Costa et al., Para la gente : art, politics and cultural identity of the Taller de Gra´fica Popular : selected works form the Charles S. Hayes Collection of twentieth-century Mexican graphics, exh. cat. (Notre Dame (IN): Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, 2009), 71, no. 36, Plate 36
  • Deborah Caplow, Leopoldo Méndez: Revolutionary Art and the Mexican Print, 1st (Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2007), vi, ill
  • Francisco Reyes Palma, Leopoldo Méndez: el oficio de grabar (Mexico, D.F.: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1994), 22 (detail without Catalog number), no. 91, 2 citations in the book: Detail on page 22 (without catalog no.) and complete print catalog no. 91, ill
Object copyright
Copyright Leopoldo Mendez / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

portraits, wood engravings

Inscriptions

stamped on back "Printed in 1945 from the original woodblock in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago for the Print and Drawing Club."

Signed

recto, in block, LR: Mendez 1945

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